The new 2026-27 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings include the legal writing programs at 109 law schools (the faculty survey had a 63% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Arizona State |
| 1 | Oregon |
| 1 | Stetson |
| 1 | UNLV |
| 5 | Suffolk |
| 6 | UC-Irvine |
| 7 | Wake Forest |
| 8 | Rutgers |
| 8 | Seattle |
| 8 | University of Arizona |
| 11 | Drake |
| 11 | Georgetown |
| 11 | Michigan |
| 14 | Indiana (McKinney) |
| 14 | Nova |
| 16 | Baltimore |
| 16 | Brooklyn |
| 16 | Louisiana State |
| 16 | Mercer |
| 16 | North Carolina |
| 16 | Temple |
| 22 | Houston |
| 22 | Louisville |
| 22 | Missouri-Kansas City |
| 22 | Ohio State |
| 22 | Washburn |
| 22 | Wyoming |
| 28 | Boston University |
| 28 | Denver |
| 28 | Kansas |
| 28 | Lewis & Clark |
| 28 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 28 | Marquette |
| 28 | St. Thomas (MN) |
| 28 | Texas A&M |
| 36 | Arkansas-Little Rock |
| 36 | Drexel |
| 36 | George Washington |
| 36 | Northeastern |
| 36 | South Texas |
| 36 | St. John’s |
| 36 | Tennessee |
| 36 | University of Washington |
| 44 | Boston College |
| 44 | North Dakota |
| 44 | Northwestern |
| 44 | William & Mary |
| 48 | Cornell |
| 48 | Duquesne |
| 48 | Hawaii |
| 48 | Illinois-Chicago |
| 48 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 48 | Mitchell | Hamline |
| 48 | Vermont |
| 48 | Washington & Lee |
| 48 | Wisconsin |
2026-27 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
- Business/Corporate Law
- Clinical Law
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts/Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- Legal Writing
- Trial Advocacy
- Tax Law
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